Materializing Poverty How the Poor Transform Their Lives |
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| Author:
| Taylor, Erin B. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7591-2422-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | AltaMira Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $69.99 |
Book Description:
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In this book, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.
In this book, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use their material resources creatively to solve everyday problems and, over a few decades, radically transform the community. Their struggles show how these everyday engagements with materiality, rather than more dramatic efforts, generate social change and build futures.